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Title: Simple explanation on Facebook 10-year challenge flap?
Post by: 230RN on January 16, 2019, 09:31:11 PM

Simple explanation on Facebook 10-year challenge flap?

I poked around a little and all I can figure out is that somehow, having image data on people ten years apart is dangerous in terms of data mining and face recognition.  Somehow.

Most of the articles on it are beyond my non-wired, IT-averse understanding.  I'd appreciate a single-syllable explanation, if possible, as to why this might be a big deal.

??? 

The articles also look like the authors are being paid by the column-inch.

Or column-pixel.

Or something column-IT-ish.

Terry, 230RN

Title: Re: Simple explanation on Facebook 10-year challenge flap?
Post by: lee n. field on January 16, 2019, 09:40:20 PM

Helping Big Brother calibrate.

(The only profile pic I've ever used is one of me when I must have been at most days old.)